In the justice system:
- A federal judge Jade Ingalls to 66 months in prison on charges of aggravated identity theft, bank fraud and other charges. Ingalls got caught by leaving a wallet in a store. When a store employee opened the wallet to find ID to notify the customer, the employee found at least five different IDs. More.
- Dozens of customers at the La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant in McDonough said they are seeing bogus transactions on their credit or debit cards. More.
- Dean Ollivierre, a Selfridges employee, was given a suspended sentence after being convicted of cloning customers’ credit cards. More.
- , pleaded guilty to stealing Hurricane Katrina disaster-assistance funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and to Aggravated Identity Theft in relation to a false application for
disaster-assistance funds. More. - Thomas Bluhm was sentenced to 36 months in prison for unlawful use of credit card account numbers belonging to other people. The judge indicated that the three-year sentence was appropriate because Bluhm continued to commit credit card offenses after his initial August 2008 arrest in Janesville and had even attempted to commit an additional fraudulent scheme while incarcerated in the Dane County Jail. More.